If you attached a Fitbit or other tracking device to Patrick or Ted Courtney the result in one day of walking might stretch miles, perhaps even to marathon length. Even more remarkable is that the...

In the upstairs kitchen at the Grange Hall a group of elementary and middle school students are having a discussion about facial hair. “Okay, who has the braided mustache and who has the five...

John Fogerty will headline Beach Road Weekend, the three-day music festival to be held August 9 to 11 at Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven. “His music is classic and we are playing on a...

Cooper Gilkes has been the man behind the kids' trout tournament for the past 47 years. He created it, manages it, and through the years has added some surprises. Last year he introduced the...

Winter finally arrived in late February to bring a crust of snow and a chill in the air. But have no fear of shivering because the Yard is bringing the heat on Friday to the Chilmark Community Center...

Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson is my spirit animal. My daughter’s too. I suppose I should explain. It is February on the Vineyard, when the blues have a habit of climbing in the basement window,...

The Christmas cheer has subsided and now New Year’s winks at us from around the next corner with its hats and noisemakers, bubbly and midnight kisses. It is also the rebirth of the quiet time...

Roberta Kirn finds songs wherever she goes, a wandering minstrel for music as part of her Song Exchange Project. Her method is to travel the world where she knows people and have that person seek out...

On Memorial Wharf in Edgartown a tower of lobster pots has appeared for the last five years around the holidays, gathered, built and decorated by Sandy Fisher to resemble a Christmas tree, albeit a...

Peter Simon, a man who hugged first and talked later, who lived a barefoot life while also chronicling with his camera the biggest names in music from the 1960s onward along with the protest...